Régine Le Jan's new book "Friends or enemies? Emotions, relationships, identities in the Middle Ages" to be published by Éditions du Seuil from February 16! seuil.com/ouvrage/amis-o…

Medievalist friends! We're advertising a full-time, open-ended, non-tenure track Lectureship in Medieval & Renaissance Studies. (Initially up to two years, renewable, w/ promotion to possible!) If you're interested and/or have questions, feel free to message me!

A 2000-year-old Roman blue glass bowl unearthed in pristine condition at an archaeological dig in Nijmegen in 2021.

#beiaardhistorie in 100 jaartallen (64/100) 1925 – In het stadhuis van #Kaapstad speelt de Antwerpenaar Anton Brees een herdenkingsbeiaard in, gefinancieerd door de Zuid-Afrikaanse vrouwen. Enkele klokken verwijzen naar slagvelden in Vlaanderen: Ypres, Messines en Passchendaele.

Offre d’emploi – Poste d’Assistant diplômé en histoire de l’art médiéval (Université de Lausanne) rmblf.be/2024/03/20/off…

Today it was confirmed that Art History will be ‘phased out’ at the University of Kent – along with Anthropology, Journalism, Philosophy, Religious Studies, and Music. What a tremendous loss.

On Wednesday 1 May I'll be giving my inaugural professorial lecture Uni of Birmingham and it would be great if you could join me. Details here: birmingham.ac.uk/schools/histor… College of Arts+Law History Department CeSMA Birmingham #MedievalTwitter #Twitterstorians #Crusades

Margaret's life merits a series ! Her father Count Baldwin IX was elected Emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople, but vanished, she supported the Knights Templar, married twice and sort of facilitated a war of succession whilst she was still alive !

A tremendously important acquisition for the Public Library in Bruges.

1 April 1957. BBC TV broadcast the famous “April Fool’s Day spaghetti tree hoax” on Panorama, narrated by Richard Dimbleby. At the time, spaghetti was relatively unknown in the UK, with British people unaware that it is made from wheat flour and water.

.Marijam Didžgalvytė’s forthcoming book on the political economy of the videogame industry is one of the sharpest & most mind blowing I’ve read in a while 🎮👾 The industry’s profits are bigger than film & music combined - why don’t we talk about it?Verso Books penguinrandomhouse.com/books/761170/e…

Are you a historian? Are you able to come to Laramie, WY this month to talk about your research (expenses paid + an honorarium)? If you are interested in this exciting, madcap opportunity to help me spend a pot of money before it is lit on fire, get in touch!

Paris research fellowships for 2025-26 now open IEA de Paris, a wonderful institution on Ile St Louis where I was lucky to spend 2022-23: happy to offer advice to anyone considering it, deadline May 3 paris-iea.fr/en/apply/calls…

The other reason for why Sartre’s existentialism became a fad during a War economy: Being and Nothingness was large enough to substitute for copper weights: theguardian.com/books/2018/jul…

For today's #Take5 we are sharing five deserted Medieval villages. These are villages that were abandoned during the Middle Ages and exist now only through crop marks and/or earthworks, with little structure remaining above ground. There are about 3000 such villages in Britain!

For #FindsFriday a unique portrait coin of Pippin III (751-768), very little known among historians. Bruno Foucray has suggested it may have been minted at Quentovic - found in the Marne département.

The two stats I learned this week that blew me away were that the US federal govt gives more to Lockheed Martin than to the Dept of Education, and that some universities get more from Dept of War than they do from tuition. Upended my understanding of universities as warmakers.

C’est demain